Middleburgh, NY 12073 Frost Dates
12073, near Middleburgh, NY: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/09, roughly 254 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 148 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Middleburgh, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Middleburgh's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Middleburgh's last frost
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Middleburgh against the rest of the dataset
Middleburgh's growing season runs about 148 days, ranking 35,748 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within NY, it ranks 1,602 of 1,951.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 12073: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Middleburgh's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Middleburgh's dates instead of trusting one.